PEP Guardiola
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The woman died in the Spanish Manresa.

Mother is a Spanish football coach, Josep Guardiola, Dolores Sala Carrio, which previously confirmed coronavirus infection died in the city of Manresa. This was reported in the Twitter of the English club Manchester city, reports RBC.

States that she was 82 years old. Members of the team expressed their condolences to the coach and the rest of the family and friends of the deceased. It became known yesterday that Guardiola has donated €1 million to the Association of physicians of Barcelona to fight the virus.

The Manchester City family are devastated to report the death today of PEP’s mother Dolors Sala Carrió in Manresa, Barcelona after contracting the Corona Virus. She was 82-years-old .

— Manchester City (@ManCity) April 6, 2020

According to current data, Johns Hopkins University, 6 April COVID-19 worldwide have been infected over 1.2 million people, killed more than 70 thousand, In Spain were more than 135 million infections and more than 13 thousand of them have been fatal.

The draw of the English Premier League is currently suspended due to a pandemic. After 28 matches Manchester city is second in the table with 57 points, behind leaders Liverpool on 25 points.

49-year-old Guardiola is headed by Manchester city in 2016. Prior to that, he coached Barcelona, played for 11 years, and Bayern Munich. Specialist three times won the Championships of Spain and Germany, and twice the championship of England. Two more times he won the Champions League.